Lotte Lehmann’s entanglement with Richard Strauss’s Arabella serves as a fascinating lens into the personal rivalries and political/musical turmoil of the 1930s. The sheer brevity of her relationship with the role is shocking when compared to her career...
Below you’ll find reviews by many writers and they are not always Lotte Lehmann fans. It’s interesting to find a broad assessment of Lehmann’s achievements or lack thereof. There’s no particular order for these, not chronological nor...
“The Sources of Style” is chapter two of Elise Plack’s 2012 The Substance of Style: How Singing Creates Meaning in the Music of Schubert, Donizetti, and Bellini, a thesis written while at Cornell University. You’ll find many Lehmann references,...
Youthful LL Manon Lescaut 1923 LL as Octavian 1924 Norbert, Mayr, LL in Don Gil 1925 LL in Don Gil 1925 1926 1926 1927 LL as Turandot 1926 LL and Piccaver 1927 Fidelio Heliane 1927 Kiepura and LL in Heliane 1927 LL, Kiepura, in Heliane 1927 Intermezzo 1927 1927 1927...
